Lush Life (Tete Montoliu album)

Lush Life is a solo album by pianist Tete Montoliu recorded in 1971 and released on the Danish label SteepleChase in 1986.[1][2][3]

Lush Life
Studio album by
Released1986
RecordedSeptember 25, 1971
StudioBavaria Sound Studio, Munich, Germany
GenreJazz
Length45:16
LabelSteepleChase
SCS 1216
ProducerNils Winther
Tete Montoliu chronology
That's All
(1971)
Lush Life
(1986)
Songs for Love
(1971)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz    [5]

Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote: "This set finds the great pianist Tete Montoliu performing his fresh and virtuosic interpretations of six standards, plus two versions of Perry Robinson's "Margareta" and his own original 'Dia Inolvidabli'. A typically excellent and swinging set".[4]

Track listing

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  1. "Airegin" (Sonny Rollins) - 2:44
  2. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 6:04
  3. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) - 5:34
  4. "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) - 5:58
  5. "Margareta" [take 1] (Perry Robinson) - 4:22
  6. "Dia Inolvidabli" (Tete Montoliu) - 4:47
  7. "Margareta" [take 2] (Robinson) - 5:36
  8. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 4:54
  9. "Imagination" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 5:17

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ SteepleChase Records discography, accessed June 19, 2017
  2. ^ Tete Montoliu discography, accessed June 19, 2017
  3. ^ SteepleChase Productions ApS, accessed June 19, 2017
  4. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Tete Montoliu: Lush Life – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1021. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.